Obviously too early to make proper assessment, but looking at tonight's score Leigh may well take time to settle in SL.

Them ginner cas lot will take some beating this season. This season is probably their best chance for silverware.

Cas laid the platform early doors. Matched Leigh up front for first 20 mins, Leigh's exuberance then dropped off and Powell brought more big blokes on, then they moved the ball about.
Simple, basic but very effective.

Yes, I think they will. I have said that since they got promoted.

I also think with with Salford and Widnes injury problems, this could play into our hands if we can get some early momentum.

They've done what Salford did when Marwan first got involved: filled the pack with players that are too old.

You can have a couple of old horses in the pack to guide the young ones around, to lead, but they all looked old and past it, and Cas just ran them ragged once they'd blown themselves out after twenty minutes.

Cas looked decent tonight, I just don't think they're gonna make the jump with that depth of the squad.
Take Gale and Mcshane out for a few games and they're not gonna be the same team, if they can keep them on the pitch, things will look much more peachy, but are they gonna be there all season ??
Saying that though, Roberts looks like a useful signing, he caught my eye as a replacement for Gale if he gets injured, they'll have to play differently, its not a straight swap but he looks not without potential,
I was ed off at the time but Scot Moore was an upgrade of sorts from mcshane, so I don't have too many complaints about him going to Cas and doing there what he did at Wakey, and that is give em piles and piles of go forward, who would fill in for him ?
The squad looks strong across the board, but they need the direction, its not easy to fudge key pivotal positions these days if you want to keep it rolling all season.

You do realise that this is his 3rd season at Cas, he was injured for most of 2016.

What diet has Hock been on (must have been same as mine) he looked to have piled the pounds on and apart from him and Vae they looked a bit lightweight. As for Cas they played what was infront of them to a T but would be worried if Gale was out as it would alter their game plan though they overcame that a couple of times last season.

I though Cas played well though lucky with McShane early on.
Leigh were pretty soft in the pack and passing was painfully slow.
They have some skill but they won't get chance to use it that way.

Difficult to tell from that how either team will go this year. Leigh had decent spells of being competitive, if they can string more of that together in games against teams other than a fresh cas outfit away, they could do ok.

Cas played well but massively helped by all the penalties Leigh conceded early on, they were blowing for last 20 mins of 1st half which is when the damage was done.

Could be worse,you take the blowing part further than 20 minutes..

OHH...Step in TART..Non constructive post.I didn't see anybody blowing.Strong first 20 and strong last 20..

That's a severe case of Jinnerism there mate, under rule 2.4.1, that's bang out of order!icon_smile.gif

No comment from the minicule Vastman! His he awaiting his Sunday dinner?

It's the start of a long season and if I was in the Leigh camp I would be worried.the Cas camp on the other hand will be over the moon. Having seen the first 2 games on sky it's difficult to fully access the games.
Defences on top during the Leeds and Saints match or a case of nothing in attack by either teams. Brilliant play by Cas or allowed to play by Leigh.
The results seemed to have gone without any surprises so it's work in progress and on to round 2. With Leigh against Leeds we may get a clearer picture of the Leeds attack and Leigh will be he'll bent on putting on a much better defensive display.